We put the LaCie Pro5 by way of our ordinary exterior solid-state drive benchmarks suite, together with Crystal DiskMark 6.0, PCMark 10 Storage Total, 3DMark Storage, Blackmagic’s Disk Velocity Take a look at, and our folder switch check. The primary two are run on a PC with the drive formatted in NTFS, and the final two on a MacBook Professional utilizing the Pro5’s native exFAT format. (We used two totally different Macs for these exams, as described above.)

Crystal DiskMark’s sequential pace exams present a conventional measure of drive throughput, simulating best-case, straight-line transfers of enormous recordsdata. In the meantime, the PCMark 10 Storage check measures an SSD’s readiness for numerous on a regular basis duties.

The Pro5 is the primary Thunderbolt 5 SSD we have now examined; for comparability, we have now included different Thunderbolt drives and fashions with USB4 and USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 connectivity.

The Pro5’s sequential learn and write speeds in Crystal DiskMark—run with the drive connected to our Home windows testbed’s USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 port—had been typical of a Gen 2×2 drive. Nonetheless, that connection doesn’t allow something like the complete throughput of the Thunderbolt 5 customary, so the outcomes aren’t indicative of its true functionality.

The Blackmagic benchmark—which exams a drive’s pace in studying and writing video recordsdata in several codecs—is good for evaluating a creator-centric SSD such because the Pro5, and in that check its scores had been simply the very best of any exterior SSD we have now examined. The Pro5 accomplished our different Mac-based check—the folder switch—in underneath a second, the identical as all however one of many SSDs in our comparability group.

The Pro5 scored very effectively on the PCMark 10 Total storage check, with solely the 2 USB4 drives—the Oyen U34 Bolt and OWC Express 1M2—delivering higher outcomes. Within the gaming-centric 3DMark Storage benchmark, the Pro5’s outcomes had been middling.